This offseason has been slow to develop. Outside of the Miami Marlins dumping their hopes onto the Toronto Blue Jays about three weeks after the end of the season and the Atlanta Braves signing B.J. Upton about a week later, no teams rushed to sign free agents or pull off trades.

But just because executives and owners have been slow to sign the dotted lines doesn’t mean every move was smart or didn’t cause nearly every unbiased observer to wonder, “Seriously? They did that?”

So here they are, the 10 worst, weird and baffling offseason moves in Major League Baseball:

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Throwing back a Marlin

This can go back to the regular season when the Marlins started to abandon their World Series hopes by trading away valuable pieces Hanley Ramirez and Anibal Sanchez.

It continued into November when they dumped Jose Reyes, who they signed the previous offseason, Mark Buehrle, who they signed around the same time, Josh Johnson and others to the Blue Jays.

This season the Marlins have a stadium with hardly any of the shine rubbed off and they might lose 100 games. The fans are mad. The owner doesn’t care. The city is fed up.

It was the worst and most selfish move of the entire offseason, and not just on the field. This has done maybe irreparable damage to the team’s fan base and eroded any trust that was built last winter.

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Wanted: Grinders, gamers and grit

Apparently the Arizona Diamondbacks didn’t have enough of those three qualities, so they traded good talent for it.

In the conference call following Justin Upton being traded to the Braves, Diamondbacks manager Kirk Gibson and general manager Kevin Towers cited a want for more players willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of the team on a daily basis, and players reiterated that those two men wanted that.

It seems they forgot that center fielder Chris Young did exactly that last season and cost himself much of the season with a shoulder injury after making a fantastic catch and smashing into the fence. Whatever.

But Upton and Young weren’t the only talented players moved. The Diamondbacks decided that after about a year and a half of owning him, Trevor Bauer, one of the game’s top pitching prospects, wasn’t worth the investment and they traded him to the Cleveland Indians as part of a three-way deal with the Cincinnati Reds for shortstop Didi Gregorius, a player who elicits a mixed bag of opinions on whether he can be an everyday major league player.

Here’s hoping the Diamondbacks lead the league in dirty uniforms next season.

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Aubrey Huff 2.0

The San Francisco Giants hope this isn’t the case, but it smells like it could be.

The Giants singed second baseman Marco Scutaro to three-year, $20-million contract, and he is 37 years old. Like the team did with Huff after the 2010 World Series run, the Giants signed Scutaro after he hit .328/.377/.391 in the postseason. He was also named the National League Championship Series MVP.

During the regular season, Scutaro was about replacement level, and he was only that good after 61 really productive games with the Giants after being traded from Colorado.

Huff was also productive in the postseason during 2010, and the Giants gave him a two-year, $20-million deal. He hit .239/.309/.359 the next two seasons and was injured a lot.

Based on that and Scutaro’s past production, his deal has a good chance to be a bad one in 18 months.

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A second appearance

Yep, the Diamondbacks are here again. This time it isn’t for trading away a good player. It’s for acquiring an expensive, declining one.

The Marlins signed closer Heath Bell to a three-year, $27-million contract last offseason and he imploded on them, blowing eight saves and building a 5.09 ERA. So they unloaded him to the Diamondbacks and sent $8 million with the right-hander.

That leaves the Diamondbacks on the hook for $10 million over the next two years. The team already has a closer, they play in a hitter’s park and in an improving division. So at best Bell will be an expensive setup guy, and at worst he will be a burglar, stealing money for zero production.

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Hanging loose in Beantown

Shane Victorino showed real signs of decline last season with the Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers, but that didn’t stop the Boston Red Sox from foolishly spending $39 million over three seasons on the 32-year old.

Victorino is coming off his worst season since his first full one in the majors in 2006. He hit .255/.321/.383 in 2012, and because he will play right field and not center for Boston, his value is further diminished.

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Inactivity in Texas

Zack Greinke. Josh Hamilton. Justin Upton. Mike Napoli.

All the above names are guys the Rangers had either targeted and missed on and/or impactful losses this offseason. Second baseman Ian Kinsler has refused to move off the position and is now blocking top prospect Jurickson Profar.

And to add to it, Nelson Cruz is now under investigation for using performance-enhancing drugs after a Miami New Times report last week uncovered his name in documents naming several players in the records of an anti-aging clinic in Miami.

The Oakland A’s and Los Angeles Angels are improving in the division, but the Rangers seem like they are going backward.

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Adding age

The Phillies are aging as fast as the New York Yankees, but their fall from the top shelf of the league is happening much faster. So what did they do? They traded for 36-year-old Michael “Not So” Young. And he’s going to play third base, where he was a butcher in limited time at the position with the Texas Rangers last season.

The Phillies didn’t give up a lot to get Young, but still, they got slower and older and not better considering Young had a .312 OBP, .370 slugging percentage and .682 OPS in a stacked lineup and in a hitter’s yard last year.

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Money to burn?

Considering the money pouring into the Los Angeles Dodgers, they can pretty much afford to make dumb mistakes. That caveat already makes signing Brandon League to a three-year, $22.5-million contract a little more bearable.

League was not an elite reliever last season, but he wasn’t totally awful. And these days, that’s enough to land a nice chunk from the Dodgers, who need League to be their closer because they don’t all-the-way trust Kenley Jansen’s makeup or health yet.

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Preps to the pros

Walt Weiss had never managed a baseball team higher than the high school varsity level. Now he is managing the Colorado Rockies.

The trend has been to hire guys with no managerial experience, and it’s worked fine for the Chicago White Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals, who reached the NLCS with Mike Matheny at the helm last season. But Weiss’ hiring is different.

The Rockies aren’t build to win and their front office is somewhat frayed since it was reconstructed last season. The team has no pitching, some offense and little chance to complete in a strong National League West. While those other first-time managers were set up to be successful, it seems that Weiss is being set up to fail.

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Time will tell

We might not know how to judge the trade between the Phillies and Minnesota Twins until a few years down the road, but it has the potential to be one-sided.

The Phillies got Ben Revere to play center field, and he’s good defensively. However, he’s done little with the bat. Last season he started to come around with a .294/.333/.342 line in 553 plate appearances, but he’s never hit a home run and doesn’t walk a lot.